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Most of this has been contributed to the new plaintextaccounting.org site, but not yet eg the accounting links.
Blog posts & articles
Simon Michael: Introducing hledger!, More on ledger, What is hledger ?, more… 2013-
Joey Hess: hledger 2012
Fabrice Niessen on Ledger, hledger, beancount, CSV2Ledger 2010
Hacker News mentions:
Hledger – Double-entry accounting from the Unix tools perspective (2012) 2014
Ledger, a powerful CLI accounting tool 2014
Command Line Accounting With Ledger and Reckon 2013
Ledger: Command-line double-entry accounting 2009
Related info
John Wiegley’s Ledger inspired hledger. Here are some good intros, which also serve as a good orientation for hledger:
- Ledger CLI Accounting for Geeks slides by Daniël Bos, 2014 (press space to advance)
- ledger basics and habits blog post by Matthew Turland, 2014
- Hacking Your Finances for Fun and Profit slides by Matthew Turland, 2013
- The accounting quest: Ledger LWN.net, 2012
- Ledger: Command-line double-entry accounting Hacker News discussion, 2009
- Ledger’s informative manual, and the Ledger wiki
- Non-Profit Accounting With Ledger CLI, A Tutorial describes Software Freedom Conservancy’s setup, 2013
Martin Blais’ beancount is another Ledger-inspired tool, written in Python. It has good documentation, some of which may be useful to hledger users:
- Command-line Accounting in Context
- The Double-Entry Counting Method
- Command-line Accounting Cookbook example real-world journal entries
- A Comparison of Beancount and Ledger & HLedger
See also the two Twitter feeds:
- @LedgerTips Tips and tricks for Ledger, hledger, beancount, etc.
- #ledgercli
Search for latest mentions of the
#ledgerclihash tag
Accounting
- Accounting, Bookkeeping, Double-entry bookkeeping system, General journal etc. at Wikipedia
- Accounting For Dragons why you should know accounting
- Bean Counter - tutorials, such as So, you want to learn Bookkeeping!. This has been recommended on the ledger list.
- Accounting Basics
- Guru 99 Accounting Tutorials
- principlesofaccounting.com
- Double Entry Bookkeeping discussion by software developers at the WikiWikiWeb
- The Vanished Grandeur of Accounting (Boston Globe) & discussion
- Winning Financially is Simple and other good episodes from the YNAB Podcast
- Back to the Stone Age: Low-Tech Expense Tracking Get Rich Slowly
- Track Every Penny You Spend Get Rich Slowly
- I’ve Tracked My Expenses — Now What? Get Rich Slowly
- A Slow-Tech Approach to Tracking Spending
- Your Financial Network Map
- The Accountancy Model and The Accountancy Model Examples - two free books by Tim Riley
- Gnucash and double entry accounting - double entry accounting introduction with examples
- Accounting for Computer Scientists
- Closing Entries
- Tutorial on multiple currency accounting by Peter Selinger
hledger add-ons
- hledger-interest generates various kinds of interest transaction
- hledger-irr reports internal rate of return (effective interest rate)
- ledger-autosync downloads/converts/deduplicates OFX data
- hledger-chart generates simple pie charts (unmaintained)
- hledger-vty a simple curses-style UI (unmaintained)
- More in extra/
Scripting examples
- https://gist.github.com/4172604 printing average expenses by month
- https://gist.github.com/4210558 calculating historical account balances
- More in extra/
Similar projects
In addition to hledger and Ledger, there are other Ledger ports and Ledger-likes, incompatible but similar in concept:
- Martin Blais’ beancount (python)
- Harshad RJ’s Abandon (scala)
- dimonf’s ledger.pl (perl)
- Omari Norman’s penny (haskell)
- Uwe Hollerbach’s umm (haskell)
Other things of interest:
- bill, bill-atomo - small time-tracking and billing app
- debts - small debt tracking web app
- housetab-multi, housetab.org - a web app to manage expenses between a group of friends
- You Need A Budget
- Software Freedom Conservancy’s npo-acct project